Gotta protect the ‘crotch watcher’. Ruins the narrative.
Forget the gay bashing crap; I'm no friend to those types, but there is something else here that caused him to increase speed. Maybe he panicked if a rapid number of bullets hit the windshield and cab. Maybe it made him forget which curve he had passed and he thought straight track was just ahead. I don't think his being gay, straight or purple had anything to do with it. I think the real world interfered with his comfort zone and he was taken completely unprepared and made an incredibly bad decision.